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(prnewswire.com) ROTTERDAM, The Netherlands and PANAMA CITY, Florida, August 18 /PRNewswire/ — Simulation developer VSTEP announces the worldwide release of their award-winning maritime training and simulation software Ship Simulator Professional v2.0 and Instructor Station at the International Conference on Marine Simulation and Ship Manoeuvrability – MARSIM ’09, in Panama. Aimed at maritime professionals, Ship Simulator … Continue reading “Groundbreaking Maritime Simulator Ship Simulator Professional Introduced at MARSIM’09”

(thejakartapost.com) SEMARANG: Rheimentall Defence Electronics (RDE) of Bremen, Germany granted a Ship Handling Simulator worth 10 million euro (about US$14 million) to the Semarang Growth Centre on Thursday. The simulator consists of a Full Mission Bridge; a Part Task Bridge Simulator; a Full Mission Engine Simulator; a Part Task Engine Simulator; an Arpa Simulator Radar; … Continue reading “German firm grants ship handling equipment”

(bymnews.com) Transas Hellas in collaboration with Transas Mediterranean SAS supplied AEN – Epirus Merchant Marine Academy in Greece with a radar Bridge Simulator. The installed simulator will provide the necessary training with its capability to simulate various types of merchant ships. Among the other academies, the aforementioned simulator is the most modern and will contribute … Continue reading “Epirus Merchant Marine Academy installs Transas radar Bridge Simulator”

(bymnews.com) CERONAV, the biggest maritime training centre in the Black Sea region of Romania, has chosen the Transas Group to extend its maritime simulator capabilities for the fourth time. The latest contract includes extensions of the existing navigational simulator (NTPro) and Engine Room Simulator (ERS) and integration to provide joint training functionality for different groups … Continue reading “Transas integrates Navigational and ERS simulators for Maritime Training Centre”

(bymnews.com) Kongsberg Maritime Simulation & Training has recently opened a sales office in Mumbai, India in cooperation with Kongsberg Process Simulation Ptv. Ltd. Within a few months of setting up its sales and service office in Mumbai, Kongsberg Maritime Simulation & Training has signed its first Ship Handling Simulator agreement, to supply a Full Mission … Continue reading “Kongsberg Maritime Simulation & Training new office confirms first sale to AMET University”

(engineeringnews.co.za) The CSIR also analyses data on ship motion. Ship motion simulator software is run on computers to determine how a ship will be manoeuvred into the port. A pilot will steer the simulated ship into the harbour, which will provide statistical information that is then used to design the safe layout of a port. … Continue reading “Research council supports port expansion projects”

(defpro.com) Kongsberg Maritime has developed a new touch screen based Engine Room Simulator configuration, which has been designed to offer realism to students whilst providing colleges and training institutes with a new opportunity to broaden the range of courses to be offered without investing in expensive new hardware. Called Neptune MultiTouch, the system, which is … Continue reading “MultiTouchEngine Room Simulator launched”

(defpro.com) 15:01 GMT, November 14, 2008 – Oceans cover 71% of the earth’s surface. Today, around two-thirds of the world’s population live in coastal zones. Nearly 95% of global long-distance freight is shipped by sea. Each year, around 3.5 billion tons of cargo and some 350 million passengers pass through European ports alone. Globalization is … Continue reading “Rheinmetall transfers a second nautical simulator to the University of Applied Sciences in Bremen, Germany”

(lloydslist.com) Keith Wallis, Hong Kong – Monday 10 November 2008 MANDATORY simulator training should be introduced for deck and engine room staff to improve operational standards and efficiency, according to the head of a leading ship management company. Peter Cremers, Anglo Eastern Group chief executive, said the simulator training would overcome the problem that there … Continue reading “Deck and engine room staff need simulator training”

(bymnews.com) Utilising the latest in touch sensitive technology, Kongsberg Maritime has developed the Multiflex Panel, a flexible touch-screen panel for its Polaris simulation systems that can be configured with different panel functions. This enables training institutes to offer a wider range of training on their Kongsberg Maritime Polaris full mission simulators whilst keeping costs down. … Continue reading “Kongsberg Maritime drives down cost of full mission simulation”